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The ruins at one of the local silver mines that is still in operation. Guanajuato was three times the richest city in the world due to the silver deposits.
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The cables that lift up the ore carts from the mine 1,500 feet down.
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This is the cathedral just outside the mine, built to compensate for all the miners who had died.
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Interior of the cathedral. The most ornate one we have seen in Mexico and rivaling that of any in Europe that I have been in, short of St. Peter's.
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The four leaders of the Mexican revolution were captured and beheaded. Their heads hung from these hooks for the ten years it took for the Spanish to be overthrown.
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This building is now a museum of the revolution and the local area.
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